Made Me So Happy.

[gness]

Driving home today I saw, as I entered my town, a large flock of starlings. I pulled over and the hundreds of starlings turned into thousands.....it was a murmuration!

I watched for twenty minutes as they formed stunning shapes above me. The noise was fantastic.

Then...dozens at a time ...they peeled off and plummeted into a row of conifers.

Not quite the Somerset Levels murmuration but as good as some I've seen in Brighton.....no more trains and hotels....I can cycle across town in ten minutes each evening to watch this...☺

[shoota]

He has been asked back with a contract extended to 11 months for next year and now lives in a much improved property (though only the top floor) and is getting on famously. I am going out at the end of the month to go 'birdwatching' with him and then bring him home for a break.
He has got the sniff of a job at an EXTREMELY prestigious (palatial) estate but that is a while in the future, if it happens at all.

[gness]

That sounds ideal...and I guess he is enjoying life.....great opportunity and I hope the next job comes good...and enjoy the birdwatching....x

[lady-janine]

have two cock pheasants that come and feed on the seed i throw down for little birds just outside the kitchen window. they dance round each other scratching and pecking all the time. seems a shame that i am feeding them for someone else to shoot. the little birds get right on the edge of the circle and wait for them to go..

[gness]

Would it be cruel to make them too fat to fly, LadyJ...then no-one could shoot them.....☻

[lady-janine]

i'mdoing my best gness.

the bird seed i have says it attracts : all sorts of tits, robins, sparrows, finches but makes ot mention of pheasants. do you think i should inform the manufacturers?

[gness]

Nooooo! The pheasant shooters will start buying it....☺

[lady-janine]

good point.

[gness]

Bed now...up early and in the sink again......night....x

[shoota]

Night G x